Assessing the concentrations of polar organic microcontaminants from point sources in the aquatic environment: Measure or model?

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 42, Issue 15, 2008, Pages 5390-5399

  Johnson, Andrew C ^a   Ternes, Thomas ^b   Williams, Richard J ^a   Sumpter, John P ^c  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF HYDROLOGY   (Germany)

^c BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICALS; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; EFFLUENTS; ERROR ANALYSIS; FORECASTING; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; IMPURITIES; INSULATING MATERIALS; POLLUTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT; RIVER POLLUTION; RIVERS; SAFETY ENGINEERING; SEWAGE; WATER PIPING SYSTEMS; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY; AND MODELING; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENTS; CHEMICAL MEASUREMENTS; CHEMICAL-; ECOTOXICITY; ECOTOXICOLOGICAL EFFECTS; MEAN VALUES; MEASURED VALUES; MEASURING TECHNIQUES; MICRO-CONTAMINANTS; MODEL PREDICTIONS; ORDER-OF MAGNITUDES; POINT SOURCES; RECEIVING WATERS; RIVER WATERS; SEWAGE EFFLUENTS; WATER QUALITY MODELLING;

HYDRAULIC MODELS;

ORGANIC COMPOUND; RIVER WATER;

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; ECOTOXICOLOGY; GIS; HORMONE; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; POINT SOURCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RIVER WATER; WATER QUALITY;

ACCURACY; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ECOTOXICITY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; MEASUREMENT ERROR; MODEL; ORGANIC POLLUTION; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEWAGE EFFLUENT; WATER POLLUTANT; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY; WILDLIFE;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMANS; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; SEWAGE; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 48749124783     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es703091r     Document Type: Review

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